About Work in Ukraine:

In October of 2020, Carpathian Homes was founded via seed capital from the One Collective alongside our Area Director, Doug Landro. Doug had spent over two decades living and working in Ukraine where he met his wife, Marina (a Ukrainian national) and raised their three children. The Landros work in Ukraine across more than 25 years has resulted in innumerable local partnerships and an intimate understanding of local needs and assets through an alliance of local organizations known as the Uzhhorod Alliance.  

Fast forward to February 24, 2022 (now over 2 years ago), both construction skills and construction supplies reached peak levels of demand as the secure regions of the country began to rebuild. Our team’s focus of caring for internally displaced people (IDPs) throughout 2022 provided 550 beds across 11 facilities and provided critical care and housing for over 30,000 Ukrainians by providing food, shelter and spiritual care. Some of those IDPs remained in the area, others went on to become refugees across Europe, while others returned to rebuild from the rubble that was once their homes, and over a $1,000,000 US was deployed by One Collective during these times of relief to support our Ukrainian partners throughout that unthinkable hardship. But in 2023 our team’s focus shifted from relief to rebuild and we are now setting out to raise funds to scale our efforts on the supply side of our Ukrainian lumber business now known as STUD Homes. STUD provides lumber and truss manufacturing, both of which are in scarce supply across the country.

As we strive to meet this need in areas such as Uzhhorod and Apostolove, we’ve set our sites on the following goals:

• 1,800 homes built over the next 10 years

• 5,000 people housed

• 20+ jobs sustained

• Locally owned and operated by Ukrainians

• $1.5M invested creates ~$15M in enterprise value, builds $50M worth of homes, creates $4M in annual revenue and gives back $100k a year in profits to local charities.